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Adam Green: Master of Sad

Say what you will about crazytrain Adam Green, but the boy can write sad songs better than anyone else. His surreal (and sometimes disgusting/disturbing) lyrics manage to perfectly describe existential pain. Sometimes when I feel like I wanna get all Emo, I play 3 killer tunes from AG's 2nd album Friends of Mine, 2003.

1. I Wanna Die

"I wanna choose to die/and be buried with a Rubik's cube/and sleep inside the big blue buildings/as the sweet disease drives through." Yeah, I think this means he wants to make a choice to die without having to actually do anything about it himself... instead he'd want to just die in his bed in some big blue building without exerting any effort. But to want to be buried with a Rubik's cube? I guess that means he wants to know there is a solution to the problem and hopefully he'll finally fucking get it once he's dead. I feel that!

2. We're Not Supposed to Be Lovers

The opener alone is enough to make you want to cry. "Picture a place that's far from danger./A nicer place to cash your chips/I'm not the one holding you hostage/squeezed in between my lips./We're not supposed to be lovers/or friends like they'd have us believe./We're not supposed to know each other/accept my apology."

But it's the end that gets me every time. "Picture a person you've forgotten/kissing your brother or your friend./Picture a wounded entertainer/cutting his hair again." While we can all get what he's talking about in the first part: you'd want to kill your brother or friend for making out with one of your old lovers, it's the last lines that I find most poignant. Everybody knows that one of the best things to do after a heartbreak is to go crazy, cut and dye your hair, get a whole new "look" and get on with it. Poor Adam.

3. Bungee

The most gut-wrenching of all is Bungee. I don't know why. Adam talks about incest and the Clap and Indian chiefs and priests, but there's something so disorienting and devastating, almost as if it's straight out of a nightmare, about "she went bungee jumping/one fine day/off the cliffs of our friendship/and at the bottom she stayed./when they told me/that her body was found/an astronaut drowned/in the long island sound/i tripped down the stairs/in my basketball shoes/and paddled downstream/in my father's canoe." I think it's the juxtaposition of something so tactile like "basketball shoes" with the metaphorically dead body of the girl and the dreamlike strings of the music.

The video below is pretty bad, but unfortunately Adam doesn't usually perform "Bungee." So instead watch and see how fun he is and how much German people are obsessed with him.

Transformer - Constructicon Devastator

Constructicons - Devastator from Transformers Universe. Got these goodies on sale back in 2006 in Brisbane. Each Transformers cost AUD$6.99(~BND$8.00). Looking at their names, some of them are not the same characters from Transformers 2 - ROTF.

The Good Life

It’s Tuesday. Day two of my annual leave and I showered with a smile on my face this morning – and the smile has barely left my face since.

Sloth was the order of the morning. Sloth and caffeine. And the Herald. And a croissant with jam. And then some more sloth. The most energetic I got was to press the lid down on my coffee bean grinder and then to turn the nozzle on the milk steamer. Meanwhile, the wee fella was brushing up on his American accent with some cartoons. (An excerpt from a subsequent conversation: In Scotland we cut the grass, son, we do not mow the lawn. And for the record, a trunk has got feck all to do with a car.)

Eventually I raise myself from this stupor to actually do something. Which I manage with unerring precision, to time with when the sun decides to blast off the clouds. How good am I? When we arrive at Culzean Castle the sun is doing its hammer on an anvil thing and the day is glorious (just the way it started, actually).

We go to the duck pond and believe it or not we have prepared. With bread and everything. If it was an outing where a woman was present we would have had sandwiches, crisps, fruit, water, a rug, a hat, possibly a wee fishing pole, a ball, suntan lotion, wet wipes, plasters, disinfectant, anti-histamines, a change of clothing for the wee fella, a portable loo and a minesweeper. And it would all have been in her handbag. No wonder women can never find their car keys.
What were we carrying? Four slices of the white stuff for the ducks.

A swan was the first to approach, followed by a cluster of ducks. What is the collective pronoun for ducks? I’m liking cluster. Can we change this convention on this one? Anyway, my son got a wee bit nervous with the size of this swan and threw the bread a tad too short. He’s sizing up the length of the swan’s neck and the size of her beak and feeling kinda unsure. I suggest he edges closer and pushes the bread forward with a foot. I would have done it myself, of course, but he was nearer. At this suggestion he just looks at me and says -hell no, the swan can freakin’ starve before I get any closer. Just what cartoons were you watching this morning? I ask. He mumbles something and points out a group of ducklings. A cluster.

Bread spent, we head back to the car. Whenever we do any sightseeing it’s at breakneck speed. See the ducks. See the swans. Right, let’s get the hell out of here. On the way to the car park we pass a family of twelve. Mum, Dad and cluster of weans. I’m liking this word cluster. They’re carrying bags and bags and boxes of food and drink. Mum sees me sizing up the goodies and smiling says I can join them if I want; they have enough to feed an army. I look at the kids and think that’s exactly what they have and leave them to it. Ten kids! Let me repeat that exclamation mark!!! Mum looks like she is in her element. Dad looks like a haunted wraith. He looks like he stepped out from behind a desk only five minutes earlier to find himself wearing shorts and a t-shirt and to have suddenly acquired a life’s worth of children.

Next stop is at the opposite end of the Culzean estate. There are 125 steps just beyond the visitors centre that lead down to a white cottage, called Segganwell where I used to go for my holidays when I was a kid. This always prompts memories... like the time me and my cousins tried to walk along the coast to Maidens but got caught in a cave when the tide came in. Apparently the adults were worried sick about us, but we just climbed our way out to safety singing Patridge Family songs.
I am a slave to this blog am I not, admitting shit like that?

Today the tide is out, way out and we walk to the water’s edge. We spot a pair of herons; a couple of swans and a cormorant perched on a rock with its wings out to dry. I have a moment. I am in the now. Life is good. I’m in a beautiful setting. The sun is strong and warm on my back and my son is hale and hearty and quoting some crap from a cartoon he watched earlier.
-nice to see you, Mrs Jones, he says in one voice.
-it’s Mr Jones. I’m a man, Doctor, he says in another.
-you just keep telling yourself that, sweetheart.
He giggles.
-Son, exactly what cartoons are you watching?

I’m wearing shorts. I know, I shouldn’t. Frightens the horses. At one point in the day I look down and notice that my legs are SO white they look like they’ve been covered in enamel. There is a local phenomenon called an Ayrshire tan. Brown face, neck and arms, while everything else is so pale it’s almost translucent. Actually, scratch the Ayrshire and go for Scottish. Apart from the folk who live along Dumbarton Road in Glasgow. It’s one of the longest streets in the city and it has a tanning parlour every twenty yards. And each tan shop has a Chinese takeaway on one side and a kebab shop on the other. It’s so the local population can look healthy while they eat their way to a heart attack. (Did you hear our Jessie died last week? Clogged arteries. She looked great in her coffin, but.)

We walk for a couple of miles – I’m sneaky and take the long way back to the car – he’s giving it, are we there yet? Just round this bend, son. An hour ago it was just at the top of this hill, he moans. As he says this he’s making quotation marks with his fingers.

Got home. Got pizza and salad. Got a movie. “Get Smart”. My son laughed himself into a coughing fit.

He’s now in his room settling down for the night while I write this. As a parent there can’t be a more pleasing sound to hear than their child, safe and secure and playing in their room overhead. He’s making those lovely wee noises he makes when he pretends he’s murdering aliens. Bless.

Time for bed and I’m still smiling. Ain’t life good?

Finneyerkes - Gather And Sing (2009)

Dazzled Sadness

Finneyerkes is a two man project from Alabama/Virginia, USA. They are influenced by many different artists especially in the post-rock genre (such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Mogwai) and films as well as soundtracks.

Finneyerkes create wide soundscapes which leave enough space to drift away but still catch the listener's breath. The electronic elements are as different as possible from each other, there are ambiental, spacy tabs and in the same songs, suddenly, noisy sounds and even some techno elements. They also use guitars and a lot of sad spoken words which complete the atmosphere of Finneyerkes. The ambience is melancholic - especially when the guitar comes in, this is something which haunts me a shiver over my back!

Finneyerkes is very different from other electronica bands, the post-rock influences are visible and sometimes reminded me on the calmy parts of French Teen Idol. The diversion is well to see between the two tracks Jacob and I am the Spy, where sad guitar tones meet dazzled electronica-elements.

You almost HAVE TO try Finneyerkes, because they have a song for every lonely heart out there! Good work, carry on.

Genre: Electronic, Indie, Melancholic, Post-Rock influenced
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The Homer by Homer Simpsons

Another item bought from eBay Australia for around BND$70.00. This has to be the most expensive car model kit I ever purchased. Not sure what the scale is but do not care cause all I want to do this kit is to properly build it and paint it. The kit is made by PolarLights and comes with a prepainted Homer Simpsons. Don't remember which season and episodes of this particular vehicle, all I remember Homer designed this car for his older brother who own a car company. In the end, Homer brother bankrupted thanks to this car !!!

The Packaging

Inclusive of mighty Homer Simpsons

You got that right !

The Content with lots of chrome and greenie parts...

...will strip off most of the chrome when I start with this project

Memories of Murder [2003]

Memories of Murder is a rarity in that despite being a ‘based-on-real-events’ movie, it has still managed to go beyond the mere facts on which it is based. A very well made policier – it is about South Korea’s first recorded case of a serial killer – the movie meticulously follows two foe-turned-friends cops – a veteran, sardonic street-smart officer for whom end justifies the means, and a smart young rookie who dares to be different – trying to get hold of the slippery culprit. However, the actual tracking process fades in comparison to the gradual transformation of the characters revealed through deft change in mood and tone of the narrative. Despite the seriousness of the plot, the director has never shied from including darkly comic moments of near absurdist proportions at various instances of the fluid structure. One of the most striking aspects of the movie lies in its exceptional cinematography – the lush, panoramic outdoor shots have been perfectly juxtaposed with the decrepit squalor of the interiors. Never afraid of depicting the nastier sides of crime investigation, this wonderfully enacted movie has managed to pull surprises at nearly every turn of its crisp length.






Director: Bong Joon-Ho
Genre: Crime Drama/Black Comedy/Mystery
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

DATE NIGHT!

okay sooo i haven't really posted anything on my everyday life! i'll introduce my boyfriend Bartt to all my blogger ladies :)

quick history on us -- met in high school, been together for 3 and 1/2 years and couldn't be happier!

alright so we haven't spent much time out and about doing normal couple things this summer so far (stuck working on a project car and blah blah etc. i'll go into more detail w/ pics another time!) but finally finally FINALLY a date night! soo of course we had to watch Transformers2, but before that we did our first blogtv chat together! (THANKS TO ALL THAT WATCHED, AND I HOPE YOU GUYS HAD AS MUCH FUN AS WE DID) i'm so happy he finally agreed to that!


before the movie, we grabbed a mango smoothie at tropical smoothie which was new to me because i'm pretty loyal to my strawberry surfrider at jamba juice. but that mango smoothie was BOMMBBB! it was yummmy and sweet! unlike the nasty sour mangoes at grocery stores, makes me miss fruits in the philippines!

thanks goodness we came 30 mins early for the movie because that place was packed. but i know everyone came to watch Shia LaBeouf. (mmmmm!!) super long movie but plenty of action! so it was pretty good.


after movies we went to applebee's for a nice dinner. we decided to get little dessert shooters, they were like $2! i got the strawberry cheesecake and he got hot fudge sundae. mine was gross! i definately don't recommend it. yuck. and that concludes our night!

<3 Ann

DATE NIGHT!

okay sooo i haven't really posted anything on my everyday life! i'll introduce my boyfriend Bartt to all my blogger ladies :)

quick history on us -- met in high school, been together for 3 and 1/2 years and couldn't be happier!

alright so we haven't spent much time out and about doing normal couple things this summer so far (stuck working on a project car and blah blah etc. i'll go into more detail w/ pics another time!) but finally finally FINALLY a date night! soo of course we had to watch Transformers2, but before that we did our first blogtv chat together! (THANKS TO ALL THAT WATCHED, AND I HOPE YOU GUYS HAD AS MUCH FUN AS WE DID) i'm so happy he finally agreed to that!


before the movie, we grabbed a mango smoothie at tropical smoothie which was new to me because i'm pretty loyal to my strawberry surfrider at jamba juice. but that mango smoothie was BOMMBBB! it was yummmy and sweet! unlike the nasty sour mangoes at grocery stores, makes me miss fruits in the philippines!

thanks goodness we came 30 mins early for the movie because that place was packed. but i know everyone came to watch Shia LaBeouf. (mmmmm!!) super long movie but plenty of action! so it was pretty good.


after movies we went to applebee's for a nice dinner. we decided to get little dessert shooters, they were like $2! i got the strawberry cheesecake and he got hot fudge sundae. mine was gross! i definately don't recommend it. yuck. and that concludes our night!

<3 Ann

Something truthful in the sea

The sound of waves crashing on a beach makes me feel small and insignificant.

The West Coast Ocean sounded and smelled and looked very much like the East Coast Ocean that I’m used to. But the sun was in a different place. Late afternoon, I’d look through my camera towards the ocean, and I’d be startled to see the sun shining towards me. It was like the dramatic moment in a futuristic movie when the actor suddenly notices two suns instead of one.

My husband and I sat in the sand one evening to watch the sunset.

“Isn’t that bizarre?” I asked him. “The sun setting into the ocean! I feel like I’m in a science fiction novel. Something weird and futuristic. ”

He sighed. “This was supposed to be romantic.”

Dr. Dog @ Prospect Park

On Saturday night Dr. Dog (Philly, represent!) played a free show at Prospect Park. Hipster heaven. Boys in skinny jeans heaven. JJ twittering every sight he saw heaven. I can't run out of good things to say about seeing a show at Prospect Park! People smiled. People recycled their aluminum beer bottles. The sound was awesome, and there was even a rainbow... as Lox said, a Pride Parade-timely sign from God that gay marriage is AWESOME and should be legal!

He CAN'T stop: TWITTER CRAZE.

So These United States opened. We missed their set except for like 2 songs, and they seemed pretty folksy to me. Then Phosphorescent played. Great stuff but not my cup of tea. However for the venue and general crowd mood, I enjoyed it.

(BTW WE RAN INTO CAROLINE SHADOOD WHO HAS A COOL BLOG: check it out! She's an Advocate alum and super cool.)

THEN the crew began bringing Dr. Dog's trees up on stage, and JJ and I were lucky to get seats. Dr. Dog played for about an hour, and they mixed up the newer songs from Fate with some of my old faves like "The Pretender" (love it when Toby sings) and "Oh No." Toward the end of their set, they brought a 13-yr.-old dog (I think named Max?) up on stage because as Scott McMicken pointed out, it was "a family affair."

Another amazing night with ultra-talented and hard-working Dr. Dog. I think this was the 7th time I've seen them, and it breaks my heart how much I love and adore them since Andrew, Kyle, and I saw them open for The Racs way back when in 2006. Dr. Dog consistently KICK ASS and TAKE NAMES. They had me at "Die Die Die," aka the song of my life.

It turns out cigarettes can’t kill you

cause when you didn't come back

every time that I thought of you

I smoked a whole pack

I was up to about seventeen packs a day

I was refueling too

about every hour or so

I drank a bottle of white mule

I wasn't thinking about turquoise

I wasn't thinking about gold

I wasn't thinking about thinking

or about getting old
got to be so I didn't care
if I was leaving or loving

oh, what I was
and what I was becoming

I don't want to in your arms

I just want to die

don't want to die in your arms

I just want to die

and like a marionette doll

oh, manned by a fool

I went into the chicken shed

started looking for tools

well I worked for a month

built some sky and some clouds

and I built some myself some angels

with trumpets so loud

well they blared hallelujah
and I knew I was done

I walked through a golden gate with pearl inlays

saw a never setting sun

well I knew I was dead

I couldn't do no more harm

well I built myself a heaven
where you died in my arms

well you died in my arms when I died

well you died in my arms when I died

well you died in my arms when I died

you died in my arms when I died

Season 1 - 5

This is the new Simpsons releases from TPH. This time to commenerate The Simpsons 20th Anniversary on TV. You guys may remember from my previous posts about The Simpsons Greeting from Springfield figures. This is TPH 2009 new releases. The figures here are characters from Season 1 to 5 . It come with a secret Homer Simpsons which I havent got.

In addition to rabbits

The Campus where Friendly Green Conference Was Held offered beautiful outdoor places for conversation: courtyards filled with flowering bushes, a fountain that made lovely water noises, a quiet pond, a grassy knoll beneath some totem poles.

One morning I woke up at 5:30 am to explore a protected area on the edge of campus, a forested ravine that was acquired by the university in 1993 after a student-led activist group convinced them that they needed to save the forested ravine from development. I walked in under the tree canopy, followed a dirt path that wove through ferns and over a stream, and watched the sun sending rays of light through tree branches.

One evening, Easy-going German Friend and I walked through a formal garden that was carefully fenced to keep the rabbits out. The flowers were just past peak, and the grounds were strewn with petals, gorgeous colours spread across the grass. “Are you sure this is a college campus?” I kept asking my friend as we’d turn the corner to see a stand of bamboo or a reflecting pool or another carefully groomed bed of flowers.

Of course, the best thing about Beautiful Campus on Canadian Island is that the walkways and buildings were infested with Friendly Green Folk. In my book, a college campus can only be improved by herds of Friendly Green Folk trampling into a dining hall or gathering for a plenary or sitting on the grass to talk. More than 650 of us who descended upon the campus for this conference. We almost outnumbered the rabbits.

CSSC/Jacob Harris - Split "The Ludovico Technique" (2009)

The Ludovico Technique ist ein Split zweier recht verschiedener Bands, die dem gleichen Netlabel, WiseOwlRecords angehören. cssc ist mehrheitlich dem elektronischen Post-Rock zuzuordnen mit gewissen Ähnlichkeiten zu The Album Leaf oder Lymbyc Systym. Das ganze wirkt recht technisch und die Drums hören sich auch ein bisschen nach Math an, kombiniert mit wunderschönen Post-Rock typischen Gitarren. Jacob Harris bewegt sich dagegen eher zwischen ruhigeren, ambientalen Klängen und ebenfalls Post-Rock typischen Melodien. Die Split-EP ist ein sehr interessanter Einblick in die Arbeit der zwei Solokünstler.

cssc's Teil von The Ludovico Technique beginnt mit I must be Numb. Ein Stück das getragen wird von einem intensiven Basslauf, der seines Zeichens eigentlich die ganze Zeit den gleichen Ton in diversen Rythmen spielt. Darüber werden nüchterne Gitarren gelegt und dezente Drums. Elektronika Elemente bestimmen den zweiten Song Blighted. Das Piano und ein Synth-Drum kommen hinzu und verwandelt das ganze in ein melancholisches Stück, welches aber gleichzeitig das technischste der ganzen CD ist. Bright little Things ist der Song der am meisten dem Post-Rock entspricht und nochmal dieses nüchterne und sterile wiederspiegelt, das cssc auszeichnet. Ein sehr spezielles Projekt, wirklich einmalig und sehr cool.

Jacob Harris beginnt mit eher sphärischen Tönen. Hallende Gitarren und eine monotone und dennoch wunderschöne Melodie spielen sich ab, das Sample zu Beginn verdeutlich dises Stimmung und machen A Dream within a Dream zu einem Meisterwerk der Ambientalen Rockmusik. Ruhig und beherrscht geht es auch weiter, derselbe Gitarrenlauf wird aufbauend durch andere Elemente ergänzt und bleibt bis am Ende ohne Drums. Serenade for lost Leader beginnt elektronisch und noisy, drony, wird bald durch einen sterilen Gitarrenlauf ergänzt und wirkt als Interludium, um den nächsten Song Soundproof einzuleiten. Dieser beginnt ebenfalls recht elektronisch, experimentell und speziell. Der Song behält diesen experimentellen Touch, komplett durch Xylophon und Samples. Ebenfalls eine sehr gelungene Arbeit und eine der schönsten Splits, die ich je gehört habe!

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The Ludovico Technique is a split of two very different bands from the same Netlabel, WiseOwlRecords. Cssc is mostly electronic post-rock with influences of The Album Leaf or Lymbyc Systym. The whole thing appears technical to me and the drums sound kind of math-like, combined with wonderful post-rock typical guitars. Jacob Harris for his part moves between calm, ambiental sounds and also post-rock typical melodies. The split-EP is an
interesting insight to the work of the two solo-artists.

cssc’s part of The Ludovico Technique starts with I must be Numb. A piece carried by an intensive bassline, for his sign playing the same tone the whole track long in different rythms. Over that, there are guitarlines with a sober sound and discreet drums. Electronica elements describe the second song Blighted. The piano and a synth-drum come in and makes the whole thing a melancholic piece, which is at the same time the most technical of the CD. Bright little Things is the song which compares the most to typical post-rock and mirrors again this sober and sterile atmosphere, which is also typical for cssc. A very special project, very unique and cool.

Jacob Harris starts with spherical tones. Reverberant guitars and a monotonous but still wonderful melody play, the sample comes in at the beginning and enforces this constant feeling and make A Dream within a Dream a masterpiece of ambiental rock music. Calmly and seriously it goes on, the same guitarline is completed by different elements and stays without drums until the end. Serenade for Lost Leader stars with electronic, noise and drone, gets soon removed by a sterile guitarline and appears as interludium to introduce the next song Soundproof. This one starts electronic again, experimental and very special. The song keeps its experimental touch, completed by xylophone and samples. Also a very good work and one of the most enjoyable splits I’ve ever heard!

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1/7 Kanu Unchou - DD Edition DVD Back Jacket Ver.

Kanu Unchou, nothing much to say about this 1/7 figure apart from that it is a discontinued item and its very highly painted and quality of the figure is frawless. There is no manufacturer marking line or what so ever. Most impressive is that long hair of hers.

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Cute or creepy? You decide

Our first night on Beautiful Campus Where Friendly Green Conference Was Held, my roommates and I went out to find a grocery store. As we walked down the road, I spotted a couple of rabbits on the embankment, eating grass in the afternoon light.

“Oh, aren’t they cute?”
“Shh … don’t scare them.”

We stopped, charmed by the chance encounter with some urban wildlife.

“Aw, look, there’s a baby one.”
“They don’t even seem afraid.”

On our walk back, we noticed more rabbits as we came onto campus. Black rabbits, this time. And then some white ones. Unlike wild rabbits who dart away at any movement, these rabbits paid no attention to us. It was dusk when we reached the lawn nearest our dorm suite, grass that was cropped suspiciously short. Dark shapes, perhaps thirty or forty of them, came crawling across the open space.

Three rabbits eating grass in the sun is cute. Forty rabbits approaching in the dusk is creepy.

For the next seven days, between plenaries and concurrent sessions and meals in the dining hall, we talked about the rabbits. They were everywhere. Hundreds of rabbits, someone said. No, thousands, said someone else. They’d begun as pet rabbits dumped onto the campus, an environment with so few predators that they had bred like … well, like rabbits.

One colleague said he was tempted to jettison his paper and instead do an ecocritical analysis of Night of the Lepus, the 1972 horror film in which people are terrorized by mutant rabbits.

“Can you imagine what this place must look like at Easter time?” asked another colleague. “Eggs everywhere!”

Jokes turned to serious discussion: it was pretty easy to see that the rabbits who conveniently kept the lawns cut short were also destroying any native vegetation. They are as much a nuisance as a source of entertainment.

Many of us had been talking about Alisa Smith and J.B.Mackinnon’s book The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating which chronicles a couple’s attempt to eat only foods that came from within a hundred miles of where they live. “Eat local” has become the new mantra amongst food activists. So the solution to the rabbit problem on campus seemed obvious to us: scoop those tame rabbits up and feed them to the students.

We never did get to propose our idea to anyone who might enact it, but the jokes and conversations about the rabbits continued. When I walked through the campus late at night, the flocks of rabbits, usually sitting motionless and staring at me, gave me chills. Many of my colleagues, on the other hand, found them cute. Between sessions, I’d see colleagues crouched on the ground, photographing the bunnies.

“Where’s the next conference?” asked Curly Hair. “I’m hoping for alligators or maybe bears.”

“How come you never mentioned the rabbits?” I asked Charming Canadian Host. I may have sounded a bit accusing, but after all, he spent a whole weekend with the leadership team when we were planning the conference and he never mentioned rabbits. Not even once.

He shrugged. “If your campus was infested with rats, would you tell everyone?”

The Terminator [1984] & Terminator 2: Judgement Day [1991]

In between the assembly line of mindless, glossy Hollywood sci-fi flicks with SFX worth millions and actual content not worth more than a dime, once in a while we get to experience movies as audacious in ideation, as thrilling in content and as terrific in execution as the first two Terminator movies (the low-budget cult Terminator and its gargantuan blockbuster sequel Terminator II – Judgement Day). With their spine-chilling tales of cyborgs sent back in time to kill (and protect) Sarah Connor who would give birth to the future leader of the resistance against world domination by robots, and the teenage video-game punk John Connor who would actually lead the struggle, respectively, the movies present terrifying, apocalyptic futures where the world is reduced to killing fields dominated by cold ruthless machines. Containing jaw-dropping special effects way ahead of their times, fantastic plots, spectacular action sequences that have become ingrained in every movie-goers’ minds, and themes that doomsday sci-fi writers have always been predicting, the movies also introduced the world to a new superstar in the form of the Austrian hunk Arnold Schwarzenegger. Linda Hamilton is especially memorable as the sexy, muscular mom striving to save her son. Dialogues like “I’ll be back” and “Hasta La Vista, Baby” are stuff that legends are made of. The fact that these two iconic James Cameron classics are still as popular among movie lovers as they were when they were released, and that they have inspired a whole generation of inferior imitations, is a testimony to their place in the pantheon of the most ground-breaking and trendsetting movies ever made.






Director: James Cameron
Genre: Action/Science Fiction
Language: English
Country: US

Soundwave + Frenzy & Rumble = MP3 player by TakaraTomy

These are Soundwave, Frenzy & Rumble from TakaraTomy, bought this a while ago around 2006 or 2007. This one here is an actual MP3 player with actual wearable headphones. Both are transformable and are sold as seperated items. Never got to use this as my MP3 player. It fits a normal SD card. I was pretty disappointed the Soundwave from Transformers 2 didnt had much part on it apart from stealing intel.